Final Exam Unit 1 & 2 Review

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Gilded Age

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(b) Progressive Era

• 1865 to 1890 (ish)

• TR and Taft acted as trustbusters

• Big business formed monopolies

• Commission style governments started to run cities

• 13, 14, 15 amendments

• Political Machines ran cities

• 16, 17, 18, 19 amendments

• Woodrow Wilson

• Active, memorable presidents, who pushed for reform

• More government regulation

• recalls, referendums and initiatives transformed state politics

• One term, hard to remember presidents

• 1900 to 1920 ish

• laissez-faire

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Gilded Age Pro-Business Policies

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(b) Not Part of Gilded Age Gov Policies

• Support for unions

• Regulation of big business

• Gave land to railroad companies

• High tariffs

• laissez-faire

What best explains the points below?

• railroads

• cowboys

• farmers

• miners

What did the passage of the Homestead Act show? Check off all of the right answers.

• The federal government played a role in settling the West.

• The federal government wanted farmers to settle out West.

• The federal government wanted to respect the rights of Native Americans

• The federal government always followed laissez-faire economic policies.

Which statement does not describe an impact of the Pacific Railroad Act?

• It protected Native American territory.

• It helped to connect the country and create national markets.

• The government offered help to railroad companies through cheap loans and land for every mile of track they laid.

• The government wanted the construction of a transcontinental railroad.

The federal government followed pro-business policies during the Gilded Age. Check off the pro-business policies followed by the national government during this time period.

• laissez-faire economics

• high tariffs

• liberty of contract

• business regulations

• laws protecting unions

What was the "big picture" change that we discussed in this unit?

• The US went from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy.

• The US economy struggled to keep up with the big powers of Europe.

• Cotton continued to be the main factor of growth for the US economy.

• Overpopulation led to economic hard times for the USA.

What did Americans associate with the image?

• western settlement
• railroads
• monopolies
• immigration

Andrew Carnegie perfected this efficient method of organizing a business where a company controls every step in the process of producing something. What is the term for this?

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

• Bessemer Process

• the assembly line

Click the areas of the map where "New Immigration" immigrants came from.